I like living. I've sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Life Isn't All Beer and Skittles 2

You can only have empathy for someone that is as close as you can get to really understanding or feeling other people's pain, sorrow, misfortune or hardships in life. Being empathetic is nothing more, but mere imagination of how a person feels, but it is never the real thing!

Is it possible for anyone to really put themselves in other people's shoes when they have never faced the predicament or woes of others? Then, if they have never, how could they assuredly say:"I know how you feel."? And even if some may have had, felt the same circumstances, it may not be exactly the same because different people have different threshold limits where some can deal with all the pain there is while some can't even bear a mosquito bite. So, what should we do when someone pours out their anguish to us, even if they only wanted us to lend an ear. Do we say:"Yes, I understand how you feel" or do we just keep mum? Then again, keeping quiet could mean that we just don't care however, saying something could also be the wrong thing!

Why is life sometimes so difficult, so complex? If only someone brilliant could come up with "Life 101," that could make it easier...